IP law document

Decree No. 105/2006/ND-CP Was adopted on September 22, 2006. The subject matter of the Decree is Copyright and Related Rights, Enforcement of IP and Related Law, Industrial Property. This Decree details and guides a number of articles of the Law on Intellectual Property on protection of intellectual property rights,...

Under No. 44/2002/PL-UBTVQH10, Ordinance of handling of administrative violations was enacted. The goal of this Ordinance is to prescribes on handling of Administrative violations to prevent and combat administrative violations, contributing to maintaining the security, social order and safety, protecting the interest of State as well as legitimate rights...

The Competition Law was passed on December 3, 2004 and came into force on July 1, 2005. It foresees general provisions for acts of competition’s restriction and of unfair competition. The law also provides procedures for the settlement of competition cases and measures to deal with violations of the competition...

Decision No.30/2006/QD-BYT was passed on September 30, 2006 including 3 articles. The Decision was enacted together with this Decision the Regulation on data security of drug registration records. For the full text of the decision, please click here: Decision No.30/2006/QD-BYT

Circular No. 08/2006/TT-BKHCN was enacted on April 04, 2006. The scope of Circular is guiding intellectual property-related activities belonging to scientific and technological services specified in Clause 8, Article 2 of June 9,2000 Science and Technology Law No. 21/2000/QH10 and the Government's Decree No. 81/2002/ND-CP of October 17, 2002,...

  The former Intellectual Property Law was passed on November 29, 2005 and came into force on July 1, 2006. It was amended by the afore-mentioned new Law on Intellectual Property, 2009. The former law was considered a great advance for the protection of the intellectual property, but also for complying...

Decree No. 103/2006/ND-CP was adopted on September 22, 2006 and came into force on October 21, 2006. The scope of regulation is defined on the first article which recognizes This Decree details and guides the implementation of the provisions of the Law on Intellectual Property on establishment, subject matters...

National Assembly promulgated the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Intellectual property (IP) which was passed on June, 19, 2009. This statute document enhances the applicability, makes more suitable for reality and trengthens the framework of Law 2005 on Intellectual property. The Law...

Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs was adopted in July 2, 1999. The object relate to this Agreement is Industrial designs. Hague Agreement established an international system that is a crucial foundation to protect industrial designs in multiple countries with minial fomarlities. The provisions of this...

Brussels Convention Relating to the Distribution of Programme-Carrying Signals Transmitted by Satellite was passed on May 21, 1974 at Brussels. Brussels comprises 12 articles providing for the obligation of each Contracting State to take adequate measures to prevent the unauthorized distribution on or from its territory of any programme-carrying...

Decree No. 106/2006/ND-CP was adopted on September 22, 2006. This Decree provides for administrative violations in the domain of intellectual property, sanctioning forms and levels, sanctioning competent and procedures as well as remedies. The Decree is composed of 5 chapters and 37 articles and entered into force on October...

Agreement between the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Swiss Federal Council on the Protection of Intellectual Property and on Co-operation in the Field of Intellectual Property was adopted on 6 and 7 July 1993. The Agreement comprises 9 articles and 2 Annex providing for an...

Decree No. 104/2006/ND-CP was passed on September 22, 2006 including 39 articles. This Decree provides detailed regulations and guidelines for execution of some articles on Plant Variety Rights in the Intellectual Property Law including responsibility for State administration, the order and procedures for establishing plant variety rights, rights and...

The Law on Technology Transfer was passed on November 29, 2006 and came into force on July 1, 2007. Aim of the law is to regulate the transfer of technologies in Vietnam, from Vietnam to abroad and from abroad to Vietnam. The law contains some specific provisions related to intellectual...

Criminal Procedure Code was passed on November 26, 2003 under No. 19/2003/QH11. This Code includes 346 articles divided into 37 chapters. This Code prescribe the order and and procedure of instituting, investigating, prosecuting and adjudicating criminal cases and executing criminal judgments. To download this Code, please click here: Criminal Procedure Code...